Secure Core Computer Science Theory. Free Up Time for Practical Coding.
Tassomai automatically sets, marks, and adapts daily practice across GCSE Computer Science. By ensuring students have core system architecture, data representation, boolean logic, and syntax theory confidently embedded, you get to focus lab time on algorithm design, pseudocode, and hands-on programming.
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Embedding Core Systems & Network Theory: Daily retrieval practice secures essential concepts across CPU architecture, memory, protocols, and cybersecurity so students enter exams with key theory confidently embedded.
Mastering Technical Vocabulary & Logic: Reinforces binary/hexadecimal conversions, logic circuits, and programming concepts without adding a single minute to your evening marking.
Honouring Practical Programming in the Classroom: We handle the low-stakes theoretical recall so you can reserve precious lab time for building algorithms, practicing pseudocode, and writing actual code.
Zero Admin for Teachers: Self-marking retrieval practice that seamlessly identifies individual and class-wide knowledge gaps in seconds and creates data-informed, ready-to-go class lesson starters and “Do Nows” from your whiteboard instantaneously. [Hyperlink: Group Quiz]
Explore our computer science content
Click through some multiple choice quiz questions for KS4 computer science, and see how students can get help from Mai, our AI tutor.
See how tools like the Tree are used to identify learning gaps and show a learner’s knowledge growing.
✔ Fundamentals of Algorithms
✔ Programming
✔ Fundamentals of Data Representation
✔ Computer Systems
✔ Fundamentals of Computer Networks
✔ Cyber Security
✔ Relational Databases and Structured Query Language (SQL)
✔ Ethical, Legal and Environmental Impacts
✔ Systems Architecture
✔ Memory & Storage
✔ Networks, Connections & Protocols
✔ Network Security
✔ Systems Software
✔ Impacts of Digital Technology
✔ Algorithms
✔ Programming Fundamentals
✔ Producing Robust Programs
✔ Boolean Logic
✔ Programming Languages & IDEs
Teachers have detailed oversight on their students’ activity and the ability to set homework and manage settings and topics through their Teacher Dashboards.
The Understanding Grid, a self-populating Personal Learning Checklist, uses the same data set as The Tree. At a glance, teachers can spot knowledge gaps at an individual or whole class level, saving valuable teaching time and enabling them to rapidly target interventions.
Parents and guardians get a weekly email report and access to their own Parent Dashboard where they can follow their child’s progress and view their Trees.
The Parent Dashboard shows how many Daily Goals have been completed and in which subjects. Parents can also view learning resources (videos or articles) recommended specifically for their child to aid progress.
Learn more about Tassomai for families who have access through schools and for private subscribers.
Feedback from computer science teachers
We are grateful to the educators who helped us with the development of the computer science course, providing input into content and course structure, here are some of their comments:
"A great way to tailor the learning and retrieval for students as it is designed to adapt to the students needs and also push them onto that next level."
"A computer science app where actual teachers have had an input! Shaping the questions, keeping it up to date and making sure it is fit for purpose."
"Such an easy tool to navigate for students and teachers. With instant feedback and a tree of growth to show progression."
"Great tool for homework and recall, leaving more time in the classroom for content delivery."
"Gives students a sense of ownership as the more they do the better the reward"
We would also like to thank the computer science teachers and students who trialled the new material over the course of the 22/23 Autumn term.
“Computer science is very theory based and a lot of the exam questions are between 1-4 marks, which means that the content really lends itself to short answer questions, like Tassomai’s format.”
- Donna Robertson, IT & CS lead, Harrow Way Community School
Try Tassomai for GCSE computer science
The best way to get to know Tassomai’s computer science content is to try it for yourself. Schools and families can both trial our award-winning content for FREE!
All schools can trial Tassomai for free for 3 weeks. You’ll get full access for your department and your students.
Click here to learn about our packages for schools where you’ll find the option to book a screenshare demo. If you like what you see we’ll get you set up in no time.
Families can trial Tassomai for free for 7 days, with full access to all age-relevant subjects. Click here to learn more and start a free trial.
If your child already gets Tassomai through school, please read our info for school parents.
If you don’t already get Tassomai through your school, talk to your teachers about a schools package or a parent / guardian about a free private subscriber trial.
You can also find information for students here.
Good grades in GCSE computer science are guaranteed (or your money back!)
We’re so confident of Tassomai’s impact, we offer a GCSE computer science grade guarantee to schools and private subscribing families.
FAQ
The short answer is that Tassomai will give amazing value for money if you implement it well: getting students participating daily, and getting teachers using Group Quiz and others of our powerful T&L tools. But you can also save a lot of money if you share Tassomai with other departments and add on some of our Equity Boost features - so please discuss with colleagues in other departments and talk to our team about getting the most out of this amazing software.ext goes here
Almost certainly: our courses are written and maintained to correspond to the requirements, structure and nomenclature of all the main exam boards; even within boards, our courses tailor to the different tiers and sub-categories so no student is made to practice material that isn’t relevant to their needs.
We’d like to think so! We build your network of classes, content and teachers bespoke for you (but quickly!), and then connect to your MIS to assign students to their correct classes. Generally we can have you set up within a couple of days, and students can get going on day one. Any time things change (e.g. students moving classes) we can re-sync with your MIS, and we’re always on hand to help with any snags.
Tassomai’s team pride themselves on being the best in the market for support, training, ‘contactability’ etc - we’ll bend over backwards to help you, especially if your staff keep in touch with us. We happily provide unlimited support on implementation, data analysis, custom reporting and school visits if needed (in fact, your students even win the rare Murr-Aye-Aye lemur sticker if Murray comes to visit the school.
Yes - this is a vital consideration. Tassomai automatically differentiates content for each student according to their level and needs, but staff can filter out topics that are not yet required (at a class level or for whole year-groups). Beyond this our Class Tasks feature allows staff to override the personalised algorithm and direct students to a chosen topic quiz for homework.
Yes, of course. We provide free trials of the complete version for a single department or an entire school so you can see the classroom engagement and workload impact first hand.
All three Boosts are offered as separate add-on modules, but for schools that subscribe to multi-subject and multi-cohort packages, the Boosts can become available at no extra charge.
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